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It's a Sunday morning and I'm casually browsing around my games folder wondering which game to install while waiting for my laundry. And my eyes hit my old backup ESF DVD with tons of previous versions and inteam builds. I look at it and go like, "Hmm :O". I put in the DVD and install HL-WON and then beta 1.0. I also discover a lot of old demos, which got me remininscing. I then noticed some dueling demos and logged onto the ESF forums to search for an ancient thread, and found it: -link- (dated May 22 2003). I looked at the demos and wanted to share my thoughts with everyone in the community, at how much fun something so very simple can be. Beta 1.2 is technically an improvement on 1.0/1.1, however because there was a loss of speed in gameplay (that's right, loss of speed relative to what people had been so used to), old school players just couldn't seem to find the same amount of fun in 1.2.x advanced melee. So I turned on fraps, recorded the demos, hit a few snazzy effects in Windows Movie Maker, and finally uploaded the video to filefront. Now that's a good 2 hours wasted on a Sunday, isn't it? ^_^; I feel like a proper **** making a video out of something so old, but meh - it's okay to do things on impulse sometimes.
Click here for mirrors (71.69 MB).
However, if someone played 1.2 first and then downgraded to 1.0 they would be appalled. The above applies only to people who played the previous versions. So watch the video, and tell me: do you agree that speed and fast gameplay is what made 1.0/1.1 the best versions for a lot of players? In my opinion, yes.
Click here for mirrors (71.69 MB).
However, if someone played 1.2 first and then downgraded to 1.0 they would be appalled. The above applies only to people who played the previous versions. So watch the video, and tell me: do you agree that speed and fast gameplay is what made 1.0/1.1 the best versions for a lot of players? In my opinion, yes.